Robert Lighthizer has gained Senate approval to assume the position as U.S. Trade Representative, a move that earned praise from metals industry trade groups such as MSCI and AISI. A long-time veteran of the trade wars, Lighthizer didn’t waste time getting settled into his new office.
As Connecting the Dots reported last month, on December 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a notice announcing changes to the process for seeking exclusions from the […] Read More
January 11, 2021
U.S. Government Reopens Paycheck Protection Program
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced last week that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will re-open during the week of January 11 for new borrowers and certain […] Read More
January 11, 2021
Make Your Voice Heard On Keystone Pipeline
Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office on January 20, he could make a decision about the fate of the Keystone XL project: whether to revoke the existing presidential permit for the project, […] Read More
January 11, 2021
Trump Administration Releases Final Independent Contractor Rule
On January 6, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a final regulation clarifying the standards for differentiating between full-time employees and independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). By clarifying which workers […] Read More
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a regulation that limits the type of research the agency can use by giving “greater consideration to studies where the underlying dose-response data are available in […] Read More
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